Author of The Art of Immersion and West of Eden. Senior fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts. Correspondent for Wired. Digital anthropologist.

“For those of us . . . wading rather than diving into art's new cyber-sphere, Frank Rose makes an excellent guide.” —The Atlantic

Frank Rose is the best-selling author of The Art of Immersion, hailed as "a grand trip" by Britain's New Scientist and "a new media bible" by the influential Italian daily la Repubblica. He is a lead­ing think­er on the im­pact of tech­nol­ogy on media, enter­tain­ment, and so­ci­ety, a theme he has explored as a key­note speaker at mar­ket­ing con­fer­ences and film festi­vals world­wide. A senior fel­low at Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity School of the Arts, he's a mem­ber of its Digital Story­telling Lab and leads its exec­utive edu­cation sem­inar in Strategic Story­telling, presented in part­ner­ship with Colum­bia Business School. He contributes to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and serves as a correspondent for Wired. [MORE]

“Frank Rose was the perfect key­note. . . . His expertise, in­sight and thought­ful provo­cation really engaged the audi­ence and brought brilliant con­text to the dis­cus­sions of the day.” —Anna Higgs, Film4

"Frank Rose's talk was spot on. It was fascinating, exciting and amusing. It sparked quite some debate during the following days of the festival and people still talk about it, so it was memorable, too." —Mark Atkin, Crossover Summit at Sheffield Doc/Fest